Date: 26/02/2014 16:25:58
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 495081
Subject: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

There’s no doubt that there are many health benefits to a well-planned vegetarian diet — and you live longer as well. But in most parts of Western society, vegetarians are in a minority — say between 2 and 10 per cent.

But this could change, thanks to the rapidly increasing spread of an Australian tick. For some people, one bite from this tick makes them allergic to meat for the rest of their lives.
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/02/25/3951271.htm

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Date: 26/02/2014 16:29:09
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 495083
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

I’ve been bitten by a lot of ticks and it is still dangerous to get between me and a hot rissole.

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Date: 26/02/2014 16:35:06
From: poikilotherm
ID: 495086
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

Peak Warming Man said:


I’ve been bitten by a lot of ticks and it is still dangerous to get between me and a hot rissole.

I hear Apricot Kernels might be good for that.

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Date: 26/02/2014 16:55:08
From: transition
ID: 495094
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

interesting

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Date: 27/02/2014 05:56:43
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 495337
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

> I hear Apricot Kernels might be good for that.

I ate one yesterday. Tasted nice.

> a well-planned vegetarian diet — and you live longer

Not necessarily. Compare the lifespan of people who are vegetarians (eg. some from India and southeast Asia) with those who aren’t.

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Date: 27/02/2014 06:09:27
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 495338
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

> But every now and then you will have the major life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.

Poorly phrased. Better to say “a few people will have anaphylaxis”.

> ‘galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose’, commonly called alpha-gal. All mammals carry alpha-gal, except for humans and the higher primates. In fact, it turns out we can be allergic to it. So here’s a scenario, a bandicoot or another cute animal is playing happily …

:-)

If all mammals carry alpha-gal and some people are allergic to it, then we wouldn’t need a tick bite to develop an allergy to meat.

I seem to remember hearing something about meat allergy before on this forum – it would have been a while ago. Vegetarian products (eg. peanuts) have a much greater chance of inducing an anaphylactic attack than mammalian meat products.

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Date: 27/02/2014 06:20:52
From: poikilotherm
ID: 495340
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

This age of entitlement still seems to be kicking along nicely. Farmers too now not just chocolate and airlines.

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Date: 27/02/2014 06:22:56
From: poikilotherm
ID: 495341
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

Oops.

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Date: 27/02/2014 09:19:03
From: 19 shillings
ID: 495370
Subject: re: Ticks Cause Meat Allergy

poikilotherm said:


This age of entitlement still seems to be kicking along nicely. Farmers too now not just chocolate and airlines.

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Oi, you forgot billionaire miners and high paid mothers to be.

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